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Re: [LUG] Mint 6 and Mobile Broadband

 

Michael Mortimore wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:30:37 +0100, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Admittedly, this is rare: possibly a once in a lifetime experience.

It's not that rare actually. I used to do this a lot with Windows 2000 & XP when creating a Ghost image for two sets of machines, one with IDE drives, and another with SCSI drives. IIRC the trick was to create the image on the lowest spec machine we could get away with (in this case a P2-300 with 440LX chipset) and then it would work on anything up to a P4 1.5GHz (this was going back to 2002).
Yes. What I meant is it's rare to pluck a drive out of 1 machine and put it into another at random and have it work without preparation or advanced planning.

That's interesting to know. I've never tried that with Windows. IIRC I did it once with Linux many moons ago.
If i recall, these two pages contain all the info needed.
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/disks_dualmult_ws.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_disk_hardware_profiles.html

What I could have done with recently is a tool to create a VMWare image from a physical hard drive without having to use things like Clonezilla. I believe there are some tools out there but I can't find them.
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
Free download. does that do everything you need?

thank you all very informative,alex the not so noob


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